[NCSG-EC] Primer for tomorrow's meeting

[Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix]

Hi all

A short primer for tomorrow, as far as my agenda point is concerned:

Updates which are deemed critical to our data systems cannot be performed
by Wapix given that we are currently hosted with a different hosting
provider, Robhost, based in Germany. There are technical reasons for that,
which can be boiled down to the fact that our hosting provider does not
want to give the level of access required to Wapix. This is understandable,
but it comes in the way of doing the updates properly.

I do not know much as to why we came to be hosted by Robhost. In any case,
it costs us 44 EUR/month for a 12 month period, so over 500 EUR or USD/y.
Stephanie, I believe you are currently paying for it.

This is probably a matter that should have been discussed this summer in
Morocco, but to be honest I was not aware that we had a separate hosting
and who it was. I discovered it along the way.

I would thus suggest that we switch over to Wapix for hosting, in addition
to management. Given that they already charge us for remote access anyway,
being hosted by them would not cost us anything more as far as monthly fees
are concerned, and would save us money during development time as they
would not need to deal with the remote access part, making their work
marginally quicker. However I believe it would cost us a few hours in dev
time.

Also, having things centralized with Wapix is a more sustainable solution
long term.

If I have your agreement on the principle of this, I will see with Josh how
much it would cost us as a whole (as I said, probably a few hrs of the dev
time we have already paid for), and what is the process for terminating
with Robhost. Once things are set, I would be back to you all with the
figures for final approval.

Have a nice day,
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